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Thursday 3 April 2008 | 6 cookies in the jar

I came to work today, and I taught the surly bored class, on two hours’ sleep.

Mostly I was able to perform this miracle because the Brujo gave me a ride to school and even managed to crack me up, first by unexpectedly, meditatively singing the chorus of ”Springtime for Hitler” and then by doing an impression of Gene Wilder moaning, “No way out…no way out…no way out….”

winter for poland and france!

It occurred to me last night that we should, somewhere on our person, have a little button or switch we could use if we just wanted to stop being alive. Srsly! To simply shut off the system–power down, as it were, and experience a painless natural uneventful cessation of function, dying without shame or stigma or elaborate mechnical/chemical ruses. But as the B. pointed out, that wouldn’t exactly be a useful evolutionary adaptation.

Thank God in all Her wisdom for the 75-cent coffee machine, for aluminum-laced extra-strength antiperspirant, and, most of all, for sunglasses.

6 cookies in the jar

  1. oleoptene said on Thursday 3 Apr 2008 at 1.02 pm:

    Might one not also wish for zippered wombs? Would that be more evolutionarily adaptive?

  2. lise said on Thursday 3 Apr 2008 at 3.18 pm:

    I just wanna say, I heart Iggy.

  3. unnarrator said on Thursday 3 Apr 2008 at 3.19 pm:

    For unzipping, or for zipping back up? Either way I like it!

    Clearly you and I should be beta testers for human tech design. Another R&D idea–13 menstrual periods per year is TOO DAMN MANY! Lousy engineering and it overextends tech support. We could easily meet customer goals with just one.

  4. brewho said on Friday 4 Apr 2008 at 9.14 am:

    the unreliable narrator is my hero.

  5. oleoptene said on Friday 4 Apr 2008 at 6.39 pm:

    mine too!

  6. t.m.k. said on Saturday 5 Apr 2008 at 11.53 am:

    thanks for your comment! i’ve learned a good amount of this stuff, but i’d like to have more control over the whole thing in general–that will happen when i switch to a host server rather than wordpress, etc.

    you continue to be my bloggin-heroine….

    consider yourself officially linked.

    xo


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